Top 200 Mental Strength Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.”

— Taylor Swift

102. “Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.”

— Jocko Willink

103. “Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.”

— T.D. Jakes

104. “Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.”

— Napoleon Hill

105. “You can’t be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.”

— Kobe Bryant

106. “Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.”

— John C. Maxwell

107. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”

— Maya Angelou

108. “Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.”

— Leon Brown

109. “You need to hear this loud and clear: No one is coming. It is up to you.”

— Mel Robbins

110. “Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.”

— Nicky Gumbel

111. “When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.”

— Joel Osteen

112. “Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can’t let the failure outside you get inside you.”

— John C. Maxwell

113. “Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.”

— Nyanaponika Thera

114. “Question yourself every day. Ask yourself: Who am I? What have I learned? What have I created? What forward progress have I made? Who have I helped? What am I doing to improve myself – today? To get better, faster, stronger, healthier, smarter?”

— Jocko Willink

115. “Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

116. “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

— William Arthur Ward

117. “It’s OK to not be OK – just don’t stay there.”

— Matt Chandler

118. “You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.”

— Joseph Murphy

119. “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

120. “It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”

— Tony Robbins

121. “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”

— Vernon Howard

122. “If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.”

— Steve Maraboli

123. “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

— Ben Okri

124. “If you’re afraid to fail, you’ll never succeed.”

— Dan Gable

125. “The past does not equal the future.”

— Tony Robbins

126. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”

— Maya Angelou

127. “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your two ears.”

— Laird Hamilton

128. “Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.”

— Lou Holtz

129. “Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.”

— Harvey MacKay

130. “When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

131. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”

— Robert H. Schuller

132. “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”

— Wilma Rudolph

133. “The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.”

— Deepak Chopra

134. “You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.”

— Eric Thomas

135. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”

— Barack Obama

136. “Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.”

— Jared Leto

137. “There is no problem outside of you that is superior to the power within you.”

— Bob Proctor

138. “It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.”

— Epictetus

139. “The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.”

— Richard Davidson

140. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”

— Dr. Roopleen

141. “The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.”

— Robin Williams

142. “You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

— James C. Collins

143. “I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

144. “The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.”

— Joseph Murphy

145. “Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”

— Zig Ziglar

146. “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

— Thomas Paine

147. “All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.”

— Tony Robbins

148. “She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius- and she would not be afraid.”

— Sarah J. Maas

149. “Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!”

— Jon Gordon

150. “Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”

— Vince Lombardi